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Saturday, February 21, 2009

The article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information. Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website.

Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit. Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.

Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting of off the traffic that they get to their website.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to put a copy of each of your articles on every one for maximum exposure. It will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit.

Friday, February 6, 2009

When I saw the January issue of Entrepreneur Magazine I was thrilled.Cover copy had a teaser on it to the effect that entrepreneurs had been surveyed and inside were their answers.I was certain that, finally, someone was paying attention to entrepreneurs who were striving for a successful business.It was time to hear from us little guys!

I can’t tell you how surprised I was as I began to read the article.Their idea of an “entrepreneur” and mine were as different as night and day. I always classified an entrepreneur as someone like the “Mom and Pop” coffee shop around the corner, the family run produce market in town, or the 18 to 24 year old who had come up with a fantastic “gizmo” and was scooped up into a corporation as their newest genius.Let me give you a quote from the article that will clue you into its idea of an “entrepreneur”.

To explain the method used for the survey they state, “Entrepreneur magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers “Entrepreneurial Challenges Survey” is an annual telephone survey of more than 300 CEOs of privately held, U.S.-based businesses recognized for their sustained, rapid growth.They average $31.5 million in annual revenue with an average of 185 employees, and have an ongoing annual growth rate of more than 23 percent……”

That definitely was not my picture of an entrepreneur. I don’t know too many entrepreneurs who average $31.5 million annually, or employ 185 people.To me, that’s a pretty successful company on its way to being a corporation.We should all be such entrepreneurs!

At any rate, I continued reading and I must say the information was worth the read, and the business of doing business can apply to those of us who aren’t quite making that $31.5 million per year yet.Here’s what the survey discovered.

What were considered their biggest challenges for 2006?

73% - Retention of key workers

38% - Developing new products/services

36% - Expansion to domestic markets

35% - Increased productivity

28% - Upgrading technology

23% - Creating business alliances

21% - Better management of cash flow

14% - Expansion outside the U.S.

13% - Improving risk management

11% - Finding new financing

11% - Buying another company or launching a spinoff

7% - Preparing company for sale

2% - Going public

Now when you stop and think about it, that’s pretty much what most entrepreneurs think about each year.Maybe not to the extent of expanding to foreign markets or launching a spinoff,but to keep your business perking along the road of improvement - all the rest are considered.

The next part of the survey was interesting because entrepreneurs were given a list of several “wild-card” factors that could affect business in 2006.When asked which three would be most harmful to their business, here’s what they said:

47% - Unstable U.S. economy

43% - Rising health-care costs

41% - Shortage of qualified workers

40% - Weak market demand

24% - Rising oil/energy costs

24% - Rising interest rates

22% - New government regulations

18% - Weaker capital spending

14% - Weakening world economy

12% - Increased global competition

11% - Decreased access to capital

10% - Sudden drop in U.S. real estate market

10% - Tax increases

9% - Inflation

So maybe my entrepreneurs and those surveyed are not really that much different in thinking.The outlook of most entrepreneurs is probably optimistic, or will be unless more unforeseen disasters strike.

Even after the huge devastation of 9/11, within two quarters we were back to the same level of optimism as we had before.People get used to dealing with tough circumstances and factor them in, but are not swayed by them.When you really think about it; isn’t that what most entrepreneurs are like?

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Choosing a good niche subject to base your website around is one of the most important aspects of making money off of your articles. This will give you a foundation to build from and you can target one general audience with a pack of keywords that they are most likely to be searching for. You should take each one of these keywords and use it for the basis of one article on each page. This way, even though you are targeting one specific subject, you will be sure to interest a wide variety of people in that one niche. They may also find other pages that interest them, which will keep them returning to your site to learn new information about the niche subject.

The best way to find keywords for your niche subject is to use a keyword software program and type in the word that is the subject of your niche. This will generate a list of keywords or phrases that contain your niche and will also show you approximately how many people search for each word or phrase. Some software programs may also tell you how many sites are out there to compete with for each word or phrase (this will help you know if those sites are worth competing with for the number of searches out there). You then deicide which of these would be most profitable by determining which have the least amount of competitors, so that you have a chance at making it to the first or second page of search engine results, but that also have a decent amount of people looking for that keyword or phrase each month. These will be the keywords or phrases that you will base the pages of your niche site on.

If there are a number of topics that you like, pick the one that you feel would be easiest to start with and then, once that site is built and generating some revenue, you can start another site. The most profitable website marketers, who use their talent of finding niches and combining that with good site content and a handful of affiliate links, have a good amount and variety of niche sites that they have started. You are never limited in what you can do with niche website marketing, unless you find out that you do not have the marketing skills or the needed funding to make it happen. Otherwise, the sky is the limit!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Some webmasters try to use articles from free content directories to get visitors to their site and make some money. This is mostly important for those who have just begun working as an affiliate for several companies and do not yet have any funding, yet need to built small niche websites to visitors to their site so that they can begin making revenue.

Although this can sometimes be the only option for those who are running on a non-existent budget, it is not a way that will effectively build your website or revenue. There are a few potential reasons why this may be detrimental to your business building efforts.

Problem #1 - Search Engines

Search engines will only look down upon your site if it has the exact same duplicated content than other sites. The more sites that share your content, the less it will help you achieve good search engine rankings.

Good search engine rankings are essential in getting visitors to your sit so that they have a chance to click on your affiliate links. If you cannot even get visitors, then will never make an revenue. Working on the search engine optimization of your site so that you will eventually be high enough in the results to get customers, should be priority one.

Problem #2 - Getting visitors to click

Although getting your site high on search engine result pages and acquiring site visitors is hard work, unfortunately this is only half of the battle. You must also be able to convince those visitors to click on your affiliate links. If your visitors see the same content they have seen on a multitude of other sites, they will be least likely to click on your links. This is because most people want to buy things that are recommended by people that they trust or whom they feel like are an expert on the subject.

If your content is just duplicated from other sites, you will be exposed as someone who does not really know what they are talking about and therefore will not look heavily on your product recommendations. This will reduce the number of website visitors who will be willing to click through.

Problem #3 - Author Bylines

Most free content is only given to you if you agree to place the authors byline under the article (you can get into trouble if you try to use it without following the stipulated rules). This poses a problem because most author bylines include links. When a reader gets done reading a really intriguing article, there is a strong possibility that they will click on the author’s byline link rather than your affiliate links. This is the entire reason why these authors offer free content to begin with, so that they may get their name and links out there to the public. Using this type of content may mean shooting yourself in the foot and losing possible profitable website visitors. Once you put these three problems together, you are looking at a serious decline in revenue simply because you used free website content from article directories. Although it may be the only option for some, if you have the funds to buy your own original content, then you should go this route. If you don’t have the finds, however, you may be better off writing your own content and then hiring professional services once you have made a profit to work with.

Monday, August 25, 2008

When you are trying to make money with articles, the beauty of it is that you don’t really need previous career related experience and that you can learn the ropes as you go. That being said, there are some skills that you will need to teach yourself or pick up along the way to make your sites successful. You can’t go in not knowing anything, not learning anything, and still expect to make a good income (or any income at all).

First, you will need to know how to pick out the correct articles to make your sites successful. There are many types of content, from free content to high dollar content, and each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages (although high dollar content is more likely to give you a successful site in the end).

Second, you will need to know how to choose keywords that can help you get a good amount of traffic, without being too competitive to get on the first or second page. If you choose highly competitive keywords that are used by large, mammoth website, you are likely to never get up to those much needed first two pages.

Third, you will need to know how to optimize your websites for various search engines. Search engine optimization skills will allow you to get high rankings for your chosen niche keywords, which will help to get visitors and make profit.

Fourth, if you opt for a large website that you will focus most of your internet marketing career on, you will also need to know how to market your website to your intended audience through paid banner ads and text links. If you prefer very small 2-5 page niche sites, then promoting all of them this way will not be cost effective and will eat up more profits than it is worth.

If you can capture some of these skills and attack them aggressively during your first few small websites or the first few months of a larger website, then you will eventually become an expert. Since you can learn the ropes first hand on your own, the only thing that you will need to do before you begin your new career is to read up on how to get started (maybe purchase an internet marketing e-book or two) and make sure that you have the funds available to start a small site.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

If you have ever seen affiliate programs running in the websites, you will know that it is not an easy task at all. It requires a lot of practicing and a whole lot of planning and programming too. There are a lot of professional affiliate programs running in the website these days. A lot can be learnt and understood from these affiliate programs. Lets now have a look at some excellent affiliate program tips.

When thinking of setting an affiliate program, all professional affiliates think of first examining the product that they are going to market. This is an extremely important thing in an affiliate marketing program. The reason why this is important is because if the product is not effective enough, or if you are not comfortable marketing the product there is no point in marketing that product. Thus, it is highly recommended that you do c complete analysis of the product and only after you are satisfied and ready to market it, should you proceed with your marketing campaign.

Just selecting the product is not sufficient. It is also important that you do a complete value check of the product. This will tell you the demand of the product in the market and the kind of marketing it requires. It is not necessary that all products be of similar demand. Hence, according to their requirement and value in the market, the marketing strategy of the product also changes. This will give a correct direction to your affiliate program.

Once, the product and the strategy to market it is fixed, what is required next is a well designed website. The website should be designed in such a manner that the product is properly presented and an increasing number of people are interested in clicking on them. The designing and development of the affiliate network should not be similar to the original website, but should somehow reflect the connection between the two. You will earn only when people will click on your affiliate site to buy products of your buyer. So begin marketing your affiliate website rigorously in the search engines and across the web too. Exchange links, place banners, add contextual links etc to attract visitors.

The payment strategy must always be fixed before hand so that there is no last minute discussion and problem regarding the payment of the affiliate program.

Author:The author is an expert in online marketing, working with epurplemedia, an online marketing company dedicated to provide service on affiliate program, internet marketing, SEO.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Make Money Online - There Are Thousands Of Make Money Online Programs - Which Ones Actually Work?By Jason Ohler

Making money online and having extra time to spend with your kids or free time to yourself are the aspirations of many people, who go online every day looking for a way to make money online. Most ads will show you outrageous amounts of money you can make over a short period of time. Or the make money website will brag how much free time they have to spend doing what they want every day. This may be true for some people, but not the majority of people looking to make money online.

The truth is it takes time to build a way to make money online. The sites that boast that you can be rich over night, just are not telling you the whole truth. However, making money online can be a reality and some of these websites have good techniques. The problem is some websites have bits and pieces of information, that if combined would give you a better picture of how to make money online.

I have tried everything from MLM to selling real estate notes. I finally came across a few make money online websites, that if you put some effort into what they were saying, you could actually make a few extra dollars online. I have developed a website that pulls all of my experience with make money online programs into one guide that shows you some of the techniques used to help people make money online.

The make money online guide can be accessed through http://www.workathometoolchest.com. The make money online guide can be accessed instantly. This make money online guide doesn't boast that you will get rich, but it will help you get started making money online.

Jason writes for http://www.workathometoolchest.com A website dedicated to finding the best way to make money online. Sign up now for the make money online guide and start this program instantly.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Would you like to find a way to make money fast and easy online? Many people are looking for quick cash. There are several ways to make fast money legitimately online. I am only going to go into one way here. But if this does not sound like a fit for you, just keep searching they are all around. That is the power of the internet. There are so many choices right at your finger tips.

The way I make money fast is by taking online surveys. Before you start rolling your eyes, surveys do pay and are an easy way to make money fast. You will not get rich from taking surveys, nor is it a solid business model. It is simple tool to get started one day and make easy money online the next. How much more easily can it be than to get paid for your opinion? I am a mother of 5 grown children and I know about giving out my opinion. And it is free and unheeded most of the time. Taking surveys for major companies make me feel like I am having a say in what is happening in the market place and even in our world. These survey companies need people to help make them billions of dollars and they are willing to pay you for these opinions.

Avoid the scam survey companies. Join a paid survey program. The price is usually under $50, but you will not be wasting time trying to fine a legitimate survey company. The objective is to find a way to make money fast not waste time. Many times the very day you join a survey program, you will be making easy money that same day. My first day of joining a survey program and I signed up to a couple survey companies in their database, I made $25 cash and $40 in dinner for 2 coupons to a local restaurant. Now that was making easy money fast.

I am not getting rich doing online surveys but I do take my survey taking seriously. I make enough money now that I do not work outside my home. The surveys are fun to do and I can do them any time of the day. Usually I do some first thing in the morning and maybe a couple in the afternoon and then several in the evening. I do not sit and do this for 8 hours a day. For me this is the best way to make money fast and easy online.

In today's business world, if you're not selling your product online, you're losing sales. If you have a product, make money online by selling online. There are simple ways to make money online.

Make sure your site is professional and easily navigable if you want to make money online. If you have a lot of product, a search feature is a necessity in order for you to make money online. If you have only one or two products, you can use a payment method such as PayPal to make money online. However, if you showcase more product in order to make money online, you'll want to open a merchant account to handle credit card payments. Some merchant accounts will also offer free features, all helping you to make money online. To keep from violating credit card rules, make sure that for Internet sales, you have an Internet account.

Consider paying affiliates to help you make money online. Affiliates are online "word of mouth" referrals and can increase the amount of money you make online. They link to your site from theirs, and all of their traffic becomes your traffic, increasing the likelihood of making money online. When it comes to making money online, affiliate marketing is a no-lose for the merchant, because commission is paid only on sales.

Consider making money online by selling your product through an eBay storefront. Bidding on items has become a hot way to make money online. Having your own storefront ensures that buyers can find you easily because your product is in one place. Through your storefront, you can make reports, track traffic and sales, and receive advertising through eBay. You can try a storefront for 30 days free, making it an attractive offer to make money online.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

The need to transfer money has become a regular requirement for us. Transferring money to children studying abroad, transferring money back home for those working abroad, making payments for goods and services purchased abroad are some of the general requirements that necessitates fast and secured money transfer services. Online money transfer services are the best solution for these types of requirements. Fast, secured, and affordable, the popularity of online money transfer services is steadily growing.

Online money transfer is the best choice for online businesses. Fast, reliable, and affordable, online purchases, auctions, sales, etc can be easily transacted with reliable online money transfer services such as epay. Security is the prime concern as far as online money transfer is concerned. This is why some online money transfer services have excelled while a huge lot of others are striving for recognition. An authentic and reputed online money transfer service provider will allow you to transfer easy money online in the most secured way. Epay.vg, for example, is a secured online money transfer service provider. Epay works on the lines of some of the most reputed online money transfer services and incorporates all the leading technologies to ensure that money transfer with epay is reliable.

Ease of use is another aspect that determines the popularity of any online money transfer. Transacting money online through epay is just like maintaining a bank account. You would need to open an online free account with epay and fund it from any existing bank account. Once funded, you can start using epay for a whole lot of purposes. Some online money transfer services also allow users to transact using mobile phones, and emails. Epay is one of them. If you are looking forward to start using online money transfer services, you check out and compare the services that various providers are offering.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Do you dream of being able to walk into your boss's office one day in the near future and telling him you're leaving? If you've got a thriving business on the internet making money you'll be able to do just that.

Most people on the internet making money have learned to serve the online public what it wants. Relevant information now. How can you take advantage of this incredible phenomena? Build direct marketing websites.

What is a direct marketing website? It is a simple one or two page website that consists of a sales letter and thank you page. An ongoing debate has been around content verses product pitch. If you take into consideration the nature of the average surfer, they get online to find the answer to a problem. You can provide the content they're looking for and hope that they will click on a link to one of the products on your site or ...

Build a direct marketing website that simply answers the question in the form of a sales letter leading to a product that will solve the problem. Which sounds better to you? Some of the most profitable websites on the internet making money are simply sales letters that address a problem, state a solution and offer a product to make it happen.

When you look at it in that context making money on the internet doesn't seem so complicated. Of course there are some blanks that need to be filled in, but the overall gist of it is incredibly simple.

Find a market that's desperately looking to solve a problem, identify the ideal solution and offer the product to make it happen. It's a win-win situation. The surfer solves the problem and you get paid for your assistance.

If you can avoid the one mistake many marketers make when building direct marketing websites, you can start a business on the internet making money right away.

Internet marketing is not for the fortune 500 companies. Its for you. Every internet browser has an equal opportunity to make from hundred to several thousand dollars per month and here's why...

Lots of people browse the internet. Hence there is an opportunity for companies to advertise their products through internet marketing. But they are too lazy to do it themselves. So they have setup commission programs where you will be paid a percentage compensation for every product you promote to your friends.

This is where an opportunity to make money online (through internet marketing) for the average internet browser comes in!

I will give you the top reasons why you should start making money online through internet marketing.

Reason #1: Anyone can start a blog and gather readers for it. It is easy to write about a company's product and advertise it to your readers and get commissions for each sale you get.

Reason #2: It is also very easy for you to start a blog. Just go to Blogger or Wordpress and make a blog of your favorite topic.

Reason #3: You will find products to promote in almost any topic. Pick the product you are interested and promote it to your readers.

Reason #4: People will trust you when you recommend the product. Hence they trust the product when it is on your blog rather than on the TV ad.

Reason #5: Doing your own mini-internet marketing gives you extra revenue to buy the small cute toys you always wanted. And this opportunity comes with no investment.

Reason #6: Your recommendation on your blog will stay there for several decades to come and sometime someone will read your blog and bring you a commission through a sale made through your link.

Reason #7: It's fun to have your own blog, type your heart's content and see people's response for it and also make money during the process.

Now what are you waiting for? Don't you think its time to start your own blog and start making money through it by typing out your favorite product reviews?

Ok, let me help you get started. PayPerPost is a great website which pays $5 - $20 for each product recommendation that you type in your blog. You can Click Here to get a free account at PayPerPost and find worthy advertisers whose products can be promoted through your blog.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to make money quick on the internet. If you have some experience online, patience, and persistence, you can definitely make money online in a number of ways. You just need to decide which way you will use. In this business, you wield the control; the faster you decide to take action to make money online, the faster you will get the money.

The first step is deciding if you want to sell a product or service online. Products are usually more popular, as there seems to be more options. Whatever you choose, make sure that you are passionate about your product or service, and ensure that you know a lot about it. This will make it easier to sell, as you can answer questions about it faster.

You also need to decide if you want to make money quick on the internet just once, or continually use it to eventually make a living. For most people, it is the latter, as they want to get out of their dead end job. Most people would rather work from home, bypassing rush hour everyday and the general stress of a job that they are not even interested in. If you would like to share a product or service that you are passionate about with the world, then selling it online is the way to go.

You need to make sure that your chosen product or service is unique, making it easier to sell. You do not want to create yet another oversold product that is the same as everything else. It is important to develop a useful product or service that will make people sure that they need it and cannot pass it up. However, creating such a product could take time if you have no ideas to begin with.

If you truly need money fast, you could start off with affiliate marketing, in which you sell an already created product online, making money through commission only. You may not make as much money in the long run as you would with your own product, but it is faster and good for beginners.

Once you either create your product or decide to become an affiliate, you need to market the item by writing and distributing articles and blogs about issues related to the product. This will encourage people to come to your website and purchase the product.

Most internet businesses take awhile to really take off, which is when you will make the most money, but as explained, you can always make fast money simply by marketing a product or service from home.

Author: Brian McCoy is a six figure earner and one of the top income earners in the home business industry. Brian devotes the time, energy, and effort into his team and mentors them to ensure their success.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Just by virtue of being online, you are probably bombarded with advertisements of work from home jobs everyday. Some of them may have piqued your curiosity, but before joining any of these offers, you need to know ways to tell the difference between scams and work from home legitimate opportunities. There are so many scams out there, but there are plenty of stable, flexible careers to perform from home, as well. Do not pass these up because you are wary of scams online, as you could be passing up a perfectly good way to make money online from home.

One way to tell if a supposed opportunity is a scam is deciding whether or not it seems too good to be true. If it does, then it most likely is. If an advertisement promises that you will make thousands overnight, or millions within a year, it is a scam. No job allows you to do that unless you either invent an amazing product or become a CEO of a major company. Online opportunities are a great way to build wealth, but it won't happen overnight. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone be rich?

If a work from home opportunity advertisement claims that you can make money doing nothing, that is another sign to run far away from this "opportunity." Why would anyone pay you to do nothing? They could do nothing by themselves, without having to pay anyone. Such an opportunity is not realistic, and will likely leave you worse off than you started.

Most work from home legitimate opportunities offer lots of information to prospects before they join, and plenty of support once they make a commitment. If a company seems to be hiding something and will not freely give out information about what you will be doing, what the pay is, etc, it is probably a scam. Trust your gut feelings if you are not sure about a company. They could be keeping certain information confidential for a reason, but chances are they are not.

Overall, be sure to research any company before joining it. This will allow you to figure out if a company is a scam or not.

Author: Brian McCoy is a six figure earner and one of the top income earners in the home business industry. Brian works with entrepreneurs around the world. He devotes the time, energy, and effort into his team and works with them to ensure their success.